IBM Storage Manager - #1750118

Role: IBM Z Storage Manager

Location: Sheffield, UK( Hybrid)

Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

Role Specific Expertise and Experience:

1. IBM zSeries Storage Management skills


2. Strong Technical Project management skills


3. Experience of working in a large enterprise of client's scale and complexity

General Knowledge & Experience:

Personal Experience

• zSeries Storage Management / Engineering background preferred and / or experience to equivalent level


• Working and partnering with vendors (e.g. IBM, DELL, Broadcom)


• Supporting and / or leading technical management of large infrastructure deployment projects


• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise IT environment and the embedded controls within change, incident, and problem management processes


• Experience working with Agile working practices and tooling


• Experience and awareness of security, audit, risk and compliance within enterprise IT environment

Personal Skills

• Ability to work under pressure to deadlines


• Strong work ethic


• Collaborating with others and building a network


• Strong interpersonal skills


• Ability to pitch communications to a variety of stakeholders

Hardware Technical Skills

• IBM DS8K disk hardware installation design, upgrade and support skills including DSCLI scripting and familiarity with HMC GUI


• DELL DLM virtual tape (VTE with Data Domain) hardware installation design, upgrade and support skills with knowledge of GUI, NFS and Linux


• Broadcom (Brocade) DCX hardware skills and FICON / FIBRE concepts and configuration. Set-up and utilising SanNav and Maps

Software Technical Skills

• IBM core knowledge: z/OS, TSO, SDSF, JCL, IDCAMS, IWS


• IBM storage knowledge: DFHSM, DFDSS, ICKDSF, DFSMS (inc OAM), TDMF, GDPS, CSM


• Broadcom (CA): CA1, CA Vantage, CA Disk, CA Allocate, CA View, Endeavor


• Dino Software: T-rex, Terradon


• Rocket: CR+


• Interchip: RTD

Additional skills (optional)

• Knowledge of zSeries Systems Programming concepts and technologies


• Awareness of Network technologies and Dark Fibre concepts


• Awareness of newer or emerging technologies


• Awareness of IBM Virtual tape solutions (TS7700’s)


• Experience of data centre migrations


• Knowledge of: GKLM, Spectrum Control and Storage insights and API exploitation


• Knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), GitHub, Jenkins


• Programing / scripting languages: Rexx, Python, YAML